Gunmen release 4 more hostages in Bern By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer BERN, Switzerland Anti-communist terrorists threatening to blow up the Polish Embassy released four more'hostages early today after extending by 48 hours their deadline for Poland to end martial law and free all political prisoners. That brought the total of hostages freed to eight, and government spokesman Achille Casanova said the developments increased hopes of “more results and an end without bloodshed.” The gunmen were believed still to be holding at least four hostages. Three women were freed first early yesterday, then a man followed in less than an hour. Two hours before that, the terrorists released a 20-year-old Polish student In one southwest Pennsylvania town , the nuclear age started in 1911 Vaughn Crile stands in front of his business in Canonsburg. Crile’s business and a nearby industrial park were built over a nuclear waste dump site. Canonsburg residents live with nuclear waste By MARCIA DUNN Associated Press Writer CANONSBU.RG Long before the atomic bomb, long before nuclear power plants, residents of this western Pennsylvania community lived with wastes buried by nuclear pioneers. Uranium processing plants, which once supplied scientist Marie Curie with radium and later helped toward building the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, produced more than 200,000 . tons of radioactive waste since 1911. The wastes now lie beneath an industrial park near this quiet, residential suburb, about 20 miles southwest of'Pittsburgh. Saying they fear for their health, residents of Canonsburg and nearby Strabane have long urged the federal government to speed up plans inside • Arab leaders conferred in strict secrecy yesterday at a summit meeting convened to define a possible Arab peace strategy in the Middle East • NFL contract talks resume today, with team owners ready to raise their money offer.... Page 15 weather Clearing with perhaps a show er early today, then becoming partly to mostly sunny this af ternoon, high 70 degrees. Fair and cool tonight with a low of 51 degrees. Mostly sunny tomorrow with a high near 75. —by Craig Wagner index Arts Comics/crossword News briefs Opinions Sports State/nation/world. Stress can By MARK FEATHERSTONE Collegian Staff Writer Although some people view college life as relatively happy-go-lucky and carefree, many students find college a stress-filled experience, a University official said. However, that stress is not necessarily negative and, in fact, is usually positive if dealt with in the right way, said David Brown, director of the University’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Seryices. “Stress is rarely, if ever negative, although it is uncomfortable,” he said. “(Stress) can be positive because it is meant as a . .. warning system to an individual that certain important values, needs and wants important to personal development are not adequately getting taken care of.” Page 4 Stress motivates a person to think about the problem and provides the energy to do something different in an attempt to solve it, Brown said. The Rev. Dennis Hall, director of the Oasis Help Center, 205 S. Garner St., said negative stress generally focuses on two main areas: changes in the expectations of the self and changes in the support group. Upon reaching college, many students are shocked by the realization that they can not the daily who had been in the building when it was taken over by the raiders Monday. Three other women had been released late Monday and yesterday. Casanova said Jiistice Minister Kurt Furgler was personally involved.in the negotiations and “we are in steady telephone contact” with a small band of gunmen that invaded the embassy Monday. Playing a key role in the talks was an 80-year-old Polish-born theologian, Professor Joseph M. Bochenski, a resident of Switzerland. He spent an hour in the ' embassy yesterday in the first face-to-face negotiations with the gunmen. The terrorists originally issued an ultimatum saying they would blow up the building at 10 a.m. today (4 a.m. EDT) if Poland’s communist government did not meet their demands. One of the'three women freed yesterday said she saw for cleaning up the site. But necessary government standards, which were to be in place by 1979, are almost’three years late. “When you didn’t know, you weren’t afraid. Now when you know, you’re afraid. It’s better not knowing,” said Sophie Winseck, who unwittingly used an old vat from the processing plantto catch rainwater in her backyard. Scientists, however, report finding only slightly higher rates of illness among those living near the radioactive site. Standard Chemical Co. extracted radium from ore at the site in 1911. Later, the site was taken over by Vitro Corp. of America, which processed uranium and radium, burying its waste there. The Atomic Energy Commission later used the property for storage. The industrial park is among 24 sites identified Collegian have positive effect, official says maintain the high grades they earned in high Most people cope with stress naturally a school. ■ person who feels lonely might join a club to be Students are also left without their support with other people Brown said, group of friends and parents who let them However, the counseling center provides know how worthwhile and important they are. formal guidance for people to learn or relearn 'Stress is rarely, if ever negative, although it is uncomfortable.' In addition, he said students now face many more external worries than before, such as financing college and maintaining the same hiflh grades they received in high school. At the same time, students face a time of value confusion and value clarification in areas such as sexual activity, drug usage and religious beliefs areas in which they were previously told what to do and had someone watching to make sure they did it. Later, as students approach graduation, these worries are replaced by thoughts such as “Was going to college worthwhile?” and “Will I find a job?” “four raiders armed with long weapons.” The invaders claimed they had enough dynamite to destroy the building, themselves and their hostages. At dusk, police surrounding the embassy moved their road blocks farther away from the compound, raising speculation of an armed assault. In Warsaw, the Foreign Ministry gave its formal permission for Swiss police to move into the embassy, which has extraterritorial status. It also asked Switzerland to permit Poland to send a “special group” here to help end the siege. It was believed the group would include members of an anti-terrorist commando squad. Ulrich Hubacher, spokesman for Swiss federal police, has refused to rule out a. police assault on the embassy, but another police official gave only a curt “no comment.” Hubacher said the terrorists have not backed off their under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 as requiring prompt cleanup. The U.S. Department of Energy found “higher than-acceptable” radioactive emissions from radon and radium at the site in 1977. Up to a third of a mile from the site, the emissions range from two to three times the normal background levels. Within that area, the risk of lung cancer would be about 25 percent higher, according to Department of Energy consultants. The Canonsburg site is the only one east of the Mississippi River and the only one surrounded by residents about 8,000 of Canonsburg’s 11,000 residents live within one mile of the facility. Decontamination of the industrial park and nearly 100 adjacent private properties has been stalled while government agencies finish reviewing Environmental Protection Agency Please see CANONSBURG, Page 14. —David Brown, director of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services how to cope naturally. “Our goal is to acknowledge that reality with people and help them get closer to where they want to be feeling reasonably satisfied and happy and effectively in charge of their own lives.” Art Costantino, acting associate director of the Office of Residential Life Programs, said a major effort of Resident Assistants in University residence halls is to try to identify people who are experiencing stress or who are feeling depressed. ’ Although RAs do some counseling for short term problems, they generally try to serve as Wednesday Sept. 8,1982 Vol. 83, No. 33 28 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University demands, and added, “It’s possible they will carry out their threat.” About 40 policemen were guarding the approaches to the embassy, including two dozen special forces members armed with submachine guns. More officers were believed hiding within the embassy compound. London’s Standard newspaper said the British army’s Special Air Service commando squad was sending men here to “advise the Swiss police on how to set up listening devices and try to install a minuscule fisheye camera in the building to watch the gunmen.” Warsaw Radio said the Polish Foreign Ministry delivered a message to Swiss Ambassador Roger Campiche asking Switzerland to grant visas to the “special group” and to allow its plane to land in Bern. The communique said, “In connection with the continued occupation of the Polish Embassy in Bern by Please see GUNMEN, Page 2. Few respond to survey about calendar change By MARCY MERMEL Collegian Staff Writer Few students have responded to a survey recently distributed by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Calendar Conversion Council concerning the University’s transition from terms to semesters, the USG consultant for surveys said. Bob Pulgino said a random sample of 1,000 University students received surveys this summer and were asked to bring them to registration or the HUB Desk. The survey was'designed to determine what students know and believe to be important about the University’s conversion to a semester calendar. However, Pulgino collected only about 20 finished surveys during registration and does not expect to find many more at the HUB Desk. The survey will not be processed through computers unless 500 to 800 surveys are returned, he said. USG President Leni Barch said the surveys were mailed to students the Monday before Arrival Day, so students would not forget to bring them back to the University. Students who received the survey were between their third and, 10th terms last spring. First and second term students do not have enough experience at the University to accurately complete the survey, Pulgino said, and students higher than 10th term will probably not be affected by the conversion, he said. The reason students did not respond to the survey, Pulgino said, is the same reason student government needs surveys. Students do not take the time to voice their opinions to student leaders, he said. The survey required about one to two minutes to complete and, because students were asked to bring it back to campus, participants did not have to pay for postage, he said. Pulgino worked on the survey during Summer Term by determining what kind of information Council Secretary James Dungan and Barch wanted to collect. The survey was to be used as a decision aid, he said. Dungan said the council wanted to determine “the particular kinds of questions and concerns that the students still have.” The council paid for printing and other costs, he said. USG wants to determine what students think are the priorities for the conversion and see if there is a large gap between those of students and administrators, Barch said. Students who have not returned their surveys can still take them to the HUB Desk or to the USG office in 2038 HUB and after this week to the USG office, Pulgino said. He added he tried to make students realize through the survey that they cannot have everything and therefore must set priorities. For example, the University cannot have both a 15- week calendar and one that starts after Labor Day. “There have to be tradeoffs,” he said. In the survey, students were asked to respond to statements about issues including the increased use of graduate assistants as teachers, the importance of small class size and the need for increasing the number of courses available during Summer Term 1983, he said. But Dungan said that despite student opinion, the council would probably not be able to make major shifts. For example, if students say they want more graduate assistants as teachers to decrease faculty workloads, the council cannot increase their use to more than there is graduate enrollment, he said. •a first-line contact, referring students to other University resources if the problem is of a long-term or more serious nature, he said. Among the counseling services available to help students deal with stress are: • Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, 217.Ritenour. Counselors available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on call 24 hours. Phone: 863-0395. • Student counselors of the Student Assistance Center, 135 Boucke. Counselors available from 4 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday and noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Phone: 863-2020. • Psychological Clinic, 314 Moore. Counselors available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., by appointment only. Phone: 865-2191. • Oasis Help Center. Counselors available 2:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. daily. Phone: 234-0323. • On Drugs Inc., 236>/2 S. Allen St. Counselors available 24 hours. Phone: 237- 5855. • Centre County Drug and Alcohol Program Base Service Unit, 209 S. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Counselors available 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Wednesday until 9 p.m. Phone: 355-7517, after hours emergency: 234-3337.
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